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We really had a great crew for our 1st Air2Air Workshop. But as I’ve written many, many time, it’s about the folks more then the aircraft. One of our students, Kevin, flew down to Phoenix, not commercially but in the A36 Bonanza. He asked if we could use his plane as one of our subjects and with a snap of a finger, wallah!
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Now I’ll be completely honest with you, shooting GA (general aviation) had never been of interest to me. I’m a history buff and I want to photograph history. And while this is a 1982 plane, it doesn’t quite make the “history” books, yet.
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But once we got up in the air and started to photograph it, I got pretty excited about it. In fact, I hoot and hollered about photographing it more then Kevin. You’re in the air at sunrise photographing a plane, how bad can it be?
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I played a little with the A36 as well, shooting in less then perfect light and a little more “commercially” minded. I never thought about that realm of aviation photography as something I could get into but now……
Photos captured by D3x, 24-120AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film